Governance and Resistance in World Politics

by Edited by David Armstrong , Theo Farrell , Bice Maiguashca

• ISBN13: 9780521546997
• ISBN10: 0521546990
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-21
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The emergence of global governance in several key areas calls into question conventional understandings of world politics in terms of conflicts of interests between sovereign states under conditions of anarchy. At the same time the new phenomena of anti-globalisation demonstrations, transnational social movements and an emergent global civil society point to developments in international relations that are both of profound importance and analytically complex. This volume's starting point is the hypothesis that one way of thinking about these processes is in terms of a dichotomy between the politics of governance and the politics of resistance. Leading scholars from several perspectives reflect on the usefulness of this dichotomy and consider its application to several crucial areas of international relations.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	v
Foreword	1	(2)
Paul Rogers
Introduction. Governance and resistance in world politics	3	(26)
Bice Maiguashca
Building the normative dimension(s) of a global polity	29	(28)
James Brassett
Richard Higgott
Cultural governance and pictorial resistance: reflections on the imaging of war	57	(18)
David Campbell
Legitimacy in a global order	75	(22)
Ian Clark
The power of representation: democratic politics and global governance	97	(22)
Alejandro Colas
Global civil society: a liberal-republican argument	119	(26)
Michael Kenny
Challenging globalisation: toward a feminist understanding of resistance	145	(16)
Marianne Marchand
Human rights and the global politics of resistance: feminist perspectives	161	(20)
Fiona Robinson
Globalising common sense: a Marxian-Gramscian (re-)vision of the politics of governance/resistance	181	(18)
Mark Rupert
Whose knowledge for what politics?	199	(24)
Karena Shaw
Index	223